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Release Date
30 April 2015
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Length
12 tracks
"Wilder Mind" is the third studio album by British rock band Mumford & Sons. It was released on 4 May 2015.
The album marks a departure from the group’s folk rock sound, as they abandoned their signature acoustic instruments (such as banjo and upright bass) for electric ones and added a session drummer to fill out their rhythm section. After working with Markus Dravs for their first two albums, the band decided to hire other producers.
In September 2013 following the end of the world tour in support of their second album "Babel", Mumford & Sons began what they thought would be a lengthy break, but found themselves back at work only five months later. After a couple of days in London at Ted Dwane’s studio, the band headed back to Brooklyn to write demo tracks at the garage studio owned by The National’s Aaron Dessner, where the band had spent time recording demos in the months leading up to the end of the Babel tour. Ben Lovett and Winston Marshall were living in New York, with Marcus Mumford and Dwane still based in England. That meant that for the next eight months, the band split their writing sessions between Dessner’s New York garage and London’s Eastcote Studios, where their debut album "Sigh No More" had been recorded. The band then recorded Wilder Mind at Air Studios in London with producer James Ford, who also traded off drumming duties with Mumford.
The album was an international success in its first week on sale, charting at number one in seven countries. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, marking the band’s second number one album in the United Kingdom. It sold 81,300 copies in its first week of release to become the second fastest-selling album of 2015. The following week saw the album spend a second consecutive week at number one in the UK. In the United States, the album became the band’s second number one on the Billboard 200, debuting at number one with sales of 249,000 copies. Furthermore, the band marked the largest debut for a rock album in 2015 and the third-biggest opening overall of the year.
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